John D. Rockefeller IV

A former Leesburg police officer acquitted last week of sexually assaulting a 24-year-old woman said he thought the "justice system came through correctly this time." But the alleged sexual-assault victim thinks otherwise. And she is fighting back. "I just want people to know that this is real and this kind of stuff happens to women," she told the Sentinel Thursday. "When our justice system fails us, it makes it that much harder to come forward." The single mother, who testified last week, has launched an online petition in an attempt to prevent Henri Bart Larue, the 27-year-old ex-cop she accused of sexually assaulting her while in his custody, from...

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